A white absorbent pad holds a handful of oily gravel showing what remains after summer cleanup - Quayle Beach, Smith Island (Prince William Sound). This beach was Signed off as environmentally stable at the end of the '89 cleanup season.
Ernie Piper, special assistant to the governor, holds up a non-oiled rock to visually demonstrate the difference between clean and oily (close up) - Green Island (Prince William Sound). This section of beach was signed off as being environmentally...